A federal judge in Philadelphia has dismissed without prejudice claims against a prison healthcare provider and its employees seeking damages for conduct occurring before November 2024, routing those pre-petition claims to a Texas bankruptcy court.
A federal judge vacated a bankruptcy court’s approval of joint counsel for four related debtors, ruling that an actual conflict of interest existed between landlord trusts and tenant operators over rent obligations.
U.S. Chief Judge Wendy Beetlestone dismissed the sole federal claim in a putative class action against Wilmington Savings Fund Society, ruling that a payable-on-death account beneficiary is not a "consumer" entitled to periodic statements under the...
A federal judge in Philadelphia dismissed most of a former employee’s civil rights claims against the School District of Philadelphia, allowing only a narrow set of allegations to proceed.
A federal judge in Philadelphia allowed a former marketing manager’s sex discrimination claim based on "maternal wall" stereotyping to proceed to a jury, while dismissing her retaliation and hostile work environment claims.
A federal judge in Philadelphia has ordered Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. to produce a witness for a deposition regarding its ability to access end-user data, rejecting the company's arguments that such information is inaccessible or that...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that former Exocel Bio Inc. CEO Patrick Retif is not entitled to indemnification or legal fee advances while the company's trade secret lawsuit against him remains pending.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania denied summary judgment on disability discrimination and retaliation claims involving a former employee’s caregiving duties, but granted the motion on hostile work environment and FMLA claims due to lack of evidence.
A Philadelphia federal judge rescinded a commercial insurance policy after holding that the contractor that obtained it supplied fictitious contact information and then disappeared when personal-injury suits arrived.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe dismissed claims against two generic drug makers antitrust litigation while denying motions to dismiss for others, granting plaintiffs leave to amend.
A federal judge denied summary judgment in an employment discrimination case involving a former Sam’s Club tire technician with sickle-cell anemia, allowing his ADA and FMLA claims to proceed to trial.
A law school applicant who paid $510 to process seven applications sued the nonprofit clearinghouse used by all 197 ABA-approved law schools, claiming it fixed prices and monopolized the application market.
The Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled that Foundations Behavioral Health failed to prove two incident reports are privileged under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA), granting plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration in a...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania allowed most of a policyholder family's expanded claims against Pacific Life Insurance Company to proceed, ruling that fraud, fraudulent inducement, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent...
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania partially blocked plaintiff's engineering expert in a wrongful-death suit over a Bobst die-cutting machine that crushed a worker to death, ruling the expert's malfunction theory too...
A federal judge in Philadelphia allowed a former Oracle cloud architect's Title VII sex discrimination and ADA disability claims to proceed while dismissing her retaliation, hostile work environment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress counts...
A Pennsylvania federal judge has cancelled a trademark registration for the term "MEDDPICC" and granted summary judgment to plaintiff MEDDICC LTD., resolving the core intellectual property dispute between the two parties.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has declined to dismiss a First Amendment retaliation claim brought by a former Penn State Board of Trustees member, leaving open a significant question about whether elected trustees are protected public employees or elected...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a habeas petition for a Honduran national, ruling that he is not subject to mandatory detention without a bond hearing under the Laken Riley Act or 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b).